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Lourdes and Gave-de-Pau, Hautes Pyrénées, France: peasants fishing with the castle in the background. Lithograph, 1821, after M. Colston.

Durga on a lotus with all her weapons surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.

Crimean War: aerial view of the Castle Hospital, Balaclava. Lithograph after Lady Alicia Blackwood.

A large goose, with three golden eggs: numbered circles printed on the body of the goose for playing the game of goose. Coloured engraving.

A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.

Crimean War, Ukraine: patients convalescing on the beach at Castle Hospital, Balaklava. Wood engraving.

Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh Castle from Grey Friars Church yard, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by W. Woolnoth, 1836, after T. Allom.

Berkeley castle, view from a distance, with a river or lake in the foreground. Pencil drawing by S. Jenner.

Creak Priory, Norfolk, England: ruins. Etching by Saml. & Nathl. Buck, 1738, after himselves.

Tübingen, Germany: panorama with key and crest. Reproduction of a line engraving by K. Merian.

M0001672: Photograph of the round tower and arch to gateway of the Castle of Chinchón, Spain

A female goddess with a castle on her head (representing an Earth goddess or Geometry) holds up a tablet engraved with faces from which a man copies; two angels and a swan sit with them in the clouds. Engraving by T. Holloway, 1810.

Paris: the Hôtel de Nevers (left) and the Tour de Nesle (right). Etching.

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M0001672: Photograph of the round tower and arch to gateway of the Castle of Chinchón, Spain

A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.

A female goddess with a castle on her head (representing an Earth goddess or Geometry) holds up a tablet engraved with faces from which a man copies; two angels and a swan sit with them in the clouds. Engraving by T. Holloway, 1810.

Durga on a lotus with all her weapons surrounded by devotees. Gouache drawing.

Paris: the Hôtel de Nevers (left) and the Tour de Nesle (right). Etching.